19-Feb-2005 --
To get to this confluence we had to make a long but pleasant trip from Medellín, our city, down to the Magdalena’s valley and then skirting the river upstream to the place where Armero used to be. Armero was devastated by an avalanche following the Ruiz Volcano explosion back in 1985, more than 26.000 people died. Now is a sunny flat terrain covered by some trees and no far from there we pick Agustín Vélez and start the final stage of the trip. After about half an hour of unpaved road, we arrived to a place called San Pedro. We’re less than a mile away from the confluence, so we kept going.

The confluence was located in the middle of a typical Colombian coffee plantation, in a small farm owned by Mr. Abel Granada. After explaining him what was all about, he allowed us to enter into his property and take the pictures; it was about 12:45 p.m. The point was 1.300 meters above sea level and only 351 km from Medellín, but it took us almost 7 hours to get there, thanks to the country’s topography.